Clean and Immediate
Rhit works from your standard nginx logs, with no preparation.
You run it in your console, it leaves nothing behind, no temp file, no database.
Instantly read your access log
You get an immediate overview with rhit
or sudo rhit
depending on your configuration
and from there you'll refine your query to get a more precise insight:
Have new questions, and have them answered
With Rhit, you'll notice unexpected things in your logs. And you'll easily know more.
Here's an example:
Let's suppose you notice a 413
HTTP code in the status table.
You just have to type rhit -s 413
to know why:
(I limit the tables displayed with -f ref,path
in this screenshot in order to keep the image small)
See the trends
You get an histogram per day of all the matching hits.
For each line in a table, you also get an histogram, in line, and a trend indicator.
And you can get tables of the most notable increases or decreases, for example here on referers:
Of course you can filter, so you may focus for example on the new client errors, or on changes on your blog consultations.